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President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he has “NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!”Trump, however, has a long history with Russia, trying repeatedly to build luxury properties in Moscow, holding a beauty pageant there, and benefiting from heavy investments from Russians in his properties around the world. . .SNIPTrump did not wind up making a deal, but he soon tried again. . .SNIPIn 1996, Trump sought to build luxury condominiums in Moscow, but the deal never happened. Trump tried again in 2005, signing a deal for a possible Trump building in a converted pencil...

I may have been too quick and too generous in giving John Kerry the benefit of the doubt about the full and complete release of his military records, as reported by the Boston Globe on Tuesday. As Thomas Lipscomb details in today's Chicago Sun-Times, some questions and confusion remain. The exact details will most likely get sorted out in time, but just for the moment let's consider the one aspect of this story that we know for sure: Kerry released his records exclusively to The Boston Globe. This is an odd decision for someone seeking end speculation regarding the whole...

Remember Michael Kranish, the Boston Globe reporter who is one of the Kerry campaign’s prime boosters in the media, and whose name mysteriously disappeared from the official Kerry campaign book sometime during the publication process? Well, look who’s starring in a new film about John Kerry’s Vietnam service: Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry. From IMDB: Credited cast: Ben Affleck .... Narrator (voice) John Kerry .... Himself Michael Kranish .... Himself http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407263/

August 07, 2004 Kranish Is Cooked Michael Kranish rocked us on Friday with a story, headlined "Veteran retracts criticism of Kerry", which told us that: "a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry's former commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ''terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry did not deserve the Silver Star -- one of the main allegations in the book. Elliott is quoted as saying that Kerry ''lied about what occurred in Vietnam . . . for example, in connection...

FREE REPUBLIC EXCLUSIVE: As Hugh Hewitt has on his site....correctly...Drudge erroneously reported that Michael Kranish is authoring the official book of the Kerry campaign (then he claimed the book was spiked, but the book was an independent publication from the get-go, not something that was a piece of propaganda for the Kerry campaign). No, Drudge did not lie. He simply went to the Amazon.com page for the book that Kranish is authoring. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586483145/qid=1091834992/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/103-9188360-6254201?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 The cover photo is of the official Kerry book at the campaign website. However, the title of that book is NOT the book that...

Kerry and Edwards: Their Plans and Promises by Michael Kranish (not yet released) From the Publisher John Kerry and his running mate, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, have a plan: an ambitious, detailed blueprint to alter the current course of America and re-direct its future. They call it the "Real Deal". But what does it really promise? How do Kerry and Edwards plan to roll back our damaged foreign relations? How will they improve our economy, restore jobs, and manage to make America safer, stronger, and more secure? Here are their proposals: ·Restoring Jobs and Rebuilding the Economy ·Winning...

In this presidential campaign year, reams of paper and miles of videotape have already been devoted to explicating the differences between two prep-school prepared, Yale-educated, Skull-and-Bones-tapped elder sons of diplomats. But the differences between John F. Kerry and George W. Bush are thrown into high relief by this vigorously researched new biography of the Democratic challenger. There are of course the much remarked upon contrasts in Austin and Brahmin language and bearing: Mr. Bush's down-home, frat boy, cheerleader demeanor versus Mr. Kerry's lugubrious, patrician deportment; Mr. Bush's blunt, sometimes garbled pronouncements versus Mr. Kerry's highly nuanced, often irrepressibly windy...